How Media Artists Relate to Art History: The Case of Claudia Hart

Claudia Hart, Big Red with Big Red Noise augmented Wallpaper, 2019: 3D visualization, bitforms gallery, NY, 2020, courtesy of the artist.

By Marie Chatel

Claudia Hart is a pioneer of media art, one of the very few that worked at the onset of merging art and simulation technologies in the 1990s. Starting with early 3D virtual imaging then-used in the military only, she subsequently experimented with upcoming techniques such as AR and VR in an all-embracing capacity. But is being…